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Samsung Announces Zero Dead Pixel Policy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the quality-returns dept.

Kez writes "A result for the consumer as Samsung declares any TFT that they sell from today onwards should be guaranteed dead pixel free. Until now, purchasing a TFT has been a gamble, given that dead pixels, while extremely annoying, did not necessarily entitle the consumer to a replacement monitor. Unfortunately, anybody who bought a Samsung TFT before today is not covered by the new policy." Update: 01/01 19:49 GMT by M : The new policy only applies in S. Korea. Suck.

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  1. Garcon! by UnCivil+Liberty · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Waiter, there's a dead pixel in my soup!"
    "Terribly sorry sir."

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    1. Re:Garcon! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's really not particularly funny.

    2. Re:Garcon! by scotch · · Score: 4, Funny

      I see dead pixels, all the time.

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  2. Re:Logical step are ... by IO+ERROR · · Score: 2, Funny

    What they do is keep the good ones in Asia and send the ones with the dead pixels to the U.S.

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  3. Garcon! Part 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Waiter, there's a dead pixel in my soup!"

    "Shhh, keep it quiet, or everybody else will want one too."

  4. Re:great for nitpickers by digital+bath · · Score: 5, Funny
    Case-in-point is the support wires in Sony Trinitron monitors. Very, very fine horizontal lines at the 1/3 and 2/3 levels on the screen are used to hold a mesh in place which gives the Trinitron series a great display. Every Trinitron style screen I've ever sold, I got asked, immediately, what the story was with the lines. Most customers balked somewhat, but all eventually agreed to live with it.


    Uhh.. thanks. I'd never noticed those lines until now. Crap.
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  5. Re:Nice but where?` by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The manufacturer would take back the defective monitors and sell them to the U.S. market.

    Oh great, we Americans export our jobs and import bad LCD's. Next thing you know, all our missing socks will show up on Mars.

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